Naomi Osaka was 'freaking out' when she bumped into Spider-Man actor Tom Holland in a Tokyo hotel gym recently but while still admittedly starstruck off the court, the 20-year-old is no shrinking violet on it.

Metal Gear in Concert is getting another live performance. After two shows in Japan last summer, a third one is coming on July 7th. Music is once again performed by the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra with vocals by Donna Burke, and this time around the conductor is Hirofumi Kurita. During the show, music from various Metal Gear games is performed live, with tracks like Snake Eater, Father & Son, Encounter and Sins of the Father, while images projected on a large screen accompany the music.

Chinese premier Li Keqiang’s visit to Japan comes after an equally congenial visit to Indonesia, and President Xi Jinping’s unexpected rapprochements with Indian PM Narendra Modi and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un Tokyo: When Chinese Premier Li Keqiang smiled and clinked glasses with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at a reception in Tokyo last week, it served as a reminder of just how rare these types of warm gestures have been between the Asian neighbours. The first visit by a Chinese premier to Japan in seven years was the latest step in Beijing’s attempt to shore up fraught ties with other powers to counter escalating tensions with the US. It came after an equally congenial visit to...

The club scheduled to stage the golf tournament during the 2020 Tokyo Games has granted three women full memberships after being warned that it could be stripped as an Olympic host if it does not change its discriminatory policy.